I have had this pattern for a few years now, I think I bought it when it was first published and it's been waiting patiently for me to get around to knitting it.
In all my years of knitting this is the first thing I've knitted top down. I'm not wild about it as a construction method in the way that some knitters seem to be, but maybe that's because it's new to me. I can't see me ever trying to convert bottom-up patterns to knit them top down though, although I may well try and do the opposite!
It was also the first time I used German short-row shaping - this I'll definitely do again. I followed this little vid on YouTube to teach me how to do them - very straightforward.
I used Drops Merino Extra Fine wool, which is lovely and soft to knit with (although, like their baby merino, is a bit splitty if you need to unpick and reknit) and the cardigan is very warm to wear. I wasn't sure whether I'd have enough of the mustard to knit the whole thing in one colour, so I decided to do the buttonbands and collar in grey (which I had left over from the winter Breton jumper I knitted for my daughter).
Now, the back neckline, I don't know why the collar sits like this rather than fully covering the part where it joins the back - maybe it's the shape of my shoulders?
I've spotted that it also sits like this on a couple of other projects made with this pattern (possibly more, people don't always take photos of the backs of their garments). It wouldn't be so noticeable if I'd knitted the collar in the same colour as the body of the cardigan though. I have no idea how to change the pattern to stop this from happening, and I'm certainly not going to unpick it and try!
I bought the buttons from Textile Garden - I used 8, although I don't think I'll be buttoning up the top two because it pulls the collar in too much towards the centre front.
I don't know why the pattern has the buttonholes on the left - maybe in Switzerland there isn't the differentiation between men's jackets and cardigans buttoning left over right and women's right over left (the pattern designer is based in Switzerland)? Anyway, I put the buttonholes on the right-hand side and did one-row 3-stitch buttonholes.
Being knitted with DK this didn't take very long to make and, apart from the way the collar sits - which I can live with because I can't see it, I'm pleased with it and have worn it a few times since I finished it. It's a bit of a departure from the waist-length fitted style of cardigan that I usually knit, but good for wearing with jeans in the winter!
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